With the unveiling of the long awated lotus T127 with its beautiful classic Lotus Racing livery, the 2010 formula One grid began to show up with already 22 cars ready to go in Bahrain. This is surely one of the most anticipated Formula One seasons since 2000. With a mixture of young talents and old veterans as well as four new teams and a returning seven times world champion willing to take the the crown again, it is going to be a very interesting battle.

After seing the Brawn GP team come out from the ashes of the former Honda F1 team to make the surprise and take both crowns in 2009, this year we have more favourites than any other season in modern F1.

It is also believed that banning refueling will make races more exciting and will allow more actual overtaking on the track. So now we have fuel tanks that can carry up to 250 liters. This lead to a slightly different design of the cars especially when it comes to the wheel base which is now a little bit longer.

No more talking, now let's have a look at the 2010 championship contenders!

Scuderia Ferrari

Driver lineup:

Felipe Massa
Fernando Alonso

Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes

Driver lineup:

Lewis Hamilton
Jenson Button

Mercedes GP

Driver lineup:

Michael Schumacher
Nico Rosberg

Red Bull Racing

Driver lineup:

Sebastian Vettel
Mark Webber

BMW Sauber F1 Team

Driver lineup:

Pedro De La Rosa
Kamui Kobayashi

Renault F1 team

Driver lineup:

Robert Kubica
Vitaly Petrov

Lotus Racing

Driver lineup:

Heikki Kovalainen
Jarno Trulli

AT&T Williams F1

Driver lineup:

Rubens Barichello
Nico Hulkenberg

Force India

Driver lineup:

Adrian Sutil
Vitantonio Liuzzi

Scuderia Toro Rosso

Driver Lineup:

Sebastien Buemi
Jaime Alguersuari

Virgin Racing

Driver lineup:

Timo Glock
Lucas Di Grassi

Two out of four new teams have unveiled their cars and began testing so far. The remaining teams are: USF1 and Campos with a possible entry for the serbian team "Stefan GP" depending on the health of the campos team which is facing some financial issues. So until we get more infos about the two newcomers enjoy the pictures above and feel free to leave your impressions in the comment section below.